Since the previous HDD benchmark thread only measured sequential read speed I though it would be nice to have a bechmark that gives a more complete picuture of a drives performance.

As it's name implies the AS SSD benchmark was designed for measuring the performance of solid state drives but there is no reason we can't use it for conventional hard drives as well. The benchmark is composed of four components, sequential read/write, 4K random read/write, 4K 64 thread random read/write, and access time so it should give us a pretty good indication of a drives performance. The benchmark also gives you an overall score so it should make ranking people pretty easy.

Note for conventional hard drive users
This benchmark is designed to challenge the fastest SSDs available so the tests may take a very long time to run.

Formatting Results
The basic formatting will be very similar to the other benchmark threads. All drives will be ranked in a single list however we will use color coding to differentiate between different types of drives. Below are some examples of how to format your results. Also please post a screen shot of your score.

SSD
[Score] | Username | OCZ Vertex 60GB

7200rpm SATA Hard Drive
[Score] | Username | Seagate 7200.12 500GB

10k rpm SATA Hard Drive
[Score] | Username | WD Velociraptor 300GB

SCSI/SAS Hard Drive
[Score] | Username | Seagate Cheetah 150GB

RAID
Use the color coding corresponding to the type of drive in the array

^nice. Yeah, i have the drives (im pretty sure one of them does not work anymore though), just gotta put um in a rig, although i really dont feel like doing all that lol, if this really takes off, then maybe.

Just watching the benchmark run makes me think I don't have something set properly. And seeing Puddle's run I don't see how I scored a 158.

The 1.4 firmware could be responsible for your lower speeds. I would expect your drive to be equal to or better than mine across the board assuming everything else is equal. Is TRIM enabled on your drive?

Edit: After a bit of reading the 1.5 firmware does seem to offer a substantial boost in sequential write speeds.

It took about an hour to run this benchie on my Raid0 drive compared to maybe 10 minutes on the SSD.

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Originally Posted by Puddle Jumper

The 1.4 firmware could be responsible for your lower speeds. I would expect your drive to be equal to or better than mine across the board assuming everything else is equal. Is TRIM enabled on your drive?

Edit: After a bit of reading the 1.5 firmware does seem to offer a substantial boost in sequential write speeds.